Greek & Latin Roots

Greek & Latin Roots Weekly Word Lists

Week 1 a, an, in = Without ant, anti, contra,contro = against, opposite bio, vit = life (o)logy = study or science of psych(o) = mind, spirit phil, philo, phile, = to love, lover of act = to do, driven to do hyper, super, sur = over, above hypo, sub = under, below mono, uni = one

Week 2 poly = many auto = self graph, gram, scrib = to write tele = from afar vis = to see andr(o), anthrop = male, mankind patr, pater = father matr, mater = mother ped = child dem(o) = people

Week 3 ion, tion, ism, y = act of / state of arthr = joint bronch(o) = windpipe cardi(o), cor = heart cephal, cap = head, brain manu = hand pod(o), ped = foot opt(o) = eye, sight corp = body hem = blood

Week 4 bi, di, du = two tri = three tetra, quadr = four penta, quint = five dec = ten hecto, cent = hundred kilo, mill = thousand semi, hemi = half, part cycl, orb, sphere = round, circle prim(o), proto = first

Week 5 (k)Chrono, temp = time aqua, hydr(o) = water astr(o), stell = star geo, terr = earth, land cosm(o) = universe heli(o) = sun naut= to sail phon(o) = sound phobia = fear of ible, able = able to be

Week 6 macro = big micro, mini = small, little ger-old age crypt- hidden/secret can = dog fel = cat equ = horse foli = leaf zoo = animal entom = insect

Week 7 bene, bon = good bibli(o), libre = book co, com, con, syn, sym = with, together meter = to measure fore, pre = before frac, frag = to break derm(a) = skin therm(o) = heat port = to carry trans = across

Week 8 re = back, again jet, ject = to throw morph = change ium = chemical element mob, mot, mov = to move dict, log = to speak, speech photo, lum = light meso = middle miss, mitt = to send neo, nov = new

Week 9 (k)chrom(o) = color flam, pyro, igni = fire scop, spec, spic = to look dis = not, reverse of, apart, away flu = to flow flect, flex = to bend circum, peri = around pseudo = false gen = family/race struct = to build

Week 10 mal = bad vor = to eat viv = to live ambul = walk use, uti = to use vac, void = to be empty tox = poison urb = city aero = atmosphere, air, aviation cit, civ = citizen

Week 11 non, un, in = not retro = back, backward alter = change intra = inward, within dis, diff = not, opposite of ex = out, away endo = within, inside, inner inter = between, among join, junct = to join post = after

Week 12 lev = to lift, raise mech = machine meg(a) = large, powerful noct = night ideo = idea pan = all juv = young vert, rota = to turn sol = alone techn = art, craft, skill

Greek & Latin Roots